Bioactive Agents for the Treatment against Tuberculosis
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Targeting and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2024) | Viewed by 7849
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Interests: mycobacterium tuberculosis; new drugs; biological assays; antibiotics; antibiotics resistance
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Dear Colleagues,
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), which has, in the last three years during the COVID-19 pandemic, remained "slightly invisible". The new WHO report indicates the prevalence and a significant increase in active tuberculosis, as well as the incidence of cases of resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid. The World Health Organization indicates that urgent antimycobacterial agents must be studied, as the search for new molecules is still a great challenge.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the application of bioactive agents, synthesized (as biomacromolecules, peptides, conjugates, nanocomposites, etc.) agents, or promising isolates (such as toxins, proteins, lipids, enzymes, etc.) with high pharmacological and therapeutic activity against sensible and multi-drug-resistant MTB. Studies concerning administration methods as well as carriers are accepted Special Issue, as well as those related to their physicochemical characterization studies, pharmacological and enzymological parameters, drug release, biological activity and in vitro and/or in vivo studies. Reviews of current challenges and potential new drugs launched in recent years are also acceptable. It is hoped that the articles published in this Special Issue can solve the current challenges facing society related to the discovery and knowledge of drugs, as well as explore the advances in medicinal chemistry against MTB.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Fernando Rogério Pavan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial activity
- anti-inflammatory activity
- biological activity
- biomacromolecules
- biomaterials
- pharmaceutical biotechnology
- drug delivery
- infectious diseases
- nanotechnology
- pharmacy
- pharmacology
- therapeutics
- toxins
- venom
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